Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

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Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through the clever mix of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, everyone i

A Lover's Discourse

Roland Barthes

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The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak, for it is addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir/ James, P. D. (INT)

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This book contains all the investigations and adventures of the world’s most popular detective. Follow the illustrious career of this quintessential British hero from his university days to his fin

The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham

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Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the free

On A Chinese Screen

W. Somerset Maugham

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Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a

THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION

Yukio Mishima

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Mizoguchi has been mentally troubled since he witnessed his mother'sinfidelity in the presence of his dying father. Mizoguchi feels utterlyabandoned and alone until he becomes a priest at Kinka-kuj